MORE ABOUT VISIBLE
UNCLEANNESS AND HOW TO CLEANSE IT.
Q. How to cleanse the leather articles such
as socks, shoes, hold-alls etc., if some filthy substance has smeared them?
They become clean by being rubbed against
the earth or any such thing provided its impression on the item concerned is
fully rubbed off.
Q. How to cleanse these articles if filth
like urine, wine, etc., defiles them?
These will be cleansed only if washed
with a liquid substance like water so as to remove all traces of uncleanness.
That is to say, any kind of uncleanness except
the filthy substance itself that smears the leather article, will be
cleansed only if washed and in no other way.
Q. Can the articles such as knife or sword
made of metals like iron, silver, copper or aluminium be cleansed without
washing?
Articles of metal like iron (which is
free from rust) of silver, gold, copper, aluminium or brass and those of glass,
ivory, bone and porcelain if they are clean and have no engravings on them can
be cleansed by rubbing off the traces of filth and its impressions altogether.
Q. What do we mean by a certain thing being
without engravings?
Engravings are marks that give an uneven
surface to an object. They need special provision because filth is still
possible to lurk in rubbed off. They however, become clean by rubbing them if
they contain only colour paint and no engravings.
Q. How to cleanse the soil that has got
defiled with urine and wine, etc.?
Uncleanness automatically vanishes once
the ground dries up and effects of uncleanness (such as colour, smell and
taste) disappear.
Q. How to cleanse uncleanness that smears
the baked bricks or stones of the pavement of a house or mosque or those of a wall?
The bricks or stones of a building if
unclean, will become clean if traces of uncleanness disappear.
Q. How to wash articles like brass vessels
or thick cushions which cannot be wringed?
The method to be followed in cleansing
articles that are difficult or impossible to wring is as follows: wash them
once and leave them. When water stops dripping, give them a second wash and
leave them. Wash them the third time after dripping of water as a result of the
second wash has stopped and they will become clean. But it is necessary to rub
them as much as possible so that maximum possible efforts have been spent in
cleansing them.
Q. Can unclean clay vessels be cleansed?
Clay vessels can also be cleansed. The
method described above will hold good for them also.
Q. Is the ashes of an unclean substance such
as dung clean or unclean?
When an unclean substance has been burnt
to ashes, it become clean.
Q. What should we do if a rat fails into
ghee (a kind of butter) and dies?
If the ghee is frozen throe out the rat
and the ghee just around it. The rest of the ghee is clean. If the ghee is in
the melted form the entire ghee will be unclean.
Q. How to cleanse the unclean ghee or oil?
Put into unclean ghee or oil an equal
quantity of water and boil the two together. Then take out the ghee or oil that
floats on the surface. Do it thrice and the ghee or oil will become clean and
usable.